From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 16:24:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3190137B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:24:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A1C043E4A for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:24:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1044491052.f38031@mired.org) Received: (qmail 26558 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2003 00:24:12 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 00:24:12 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15931.5035.909252.787510@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:24:11 -0600 To: "Toomas Aas" Cc: "Steve Gladstone" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much disk space is required when installing FreeBSD 4.7 In-Reply-To: <200301311428.h0VESXr01270@lv.raad.tartu.ee> References: <200301311428.h0VESXr01270@lv.raad.tartu.ee> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <200301311428.h0VESXr01270@lv.raad.tartu.ee>, Toomas Aas typed: > For that small a disk I'd recommend just creating two partitions - swap > (I know everybody blindly tells you to use RAMx2, but in my experience > you can get by with a *lot* less) and a / partition. He's got 256 meg of ram. If he's not going to run a desktop environment, but just a nice simple window manager, he can probably get by with no swap at all. I have no idea how much memory Gnome or KDE are going to eat, but it wouldn't surprise me if he can get by with no swap if his usage is light. The next to consider beyond that is 256.064 meg. That .064 more than real memory is enough swap to save a core image after a panic. After that comes the 2x mark, which is what FreeBSD is tuned for. On a heavily loaded system, you want to use that. As a final note for Mr. Gladstone, "single user" in Unix parlance has a special meaning, in that no process other than the shell running on the console are running on the system. If you have to log in to the system, you're not in single user mode - even if that's the only possible login. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message